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Carrie Fisher Enters the No Spin Zone

This is a partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, January 21, 2004 that has been edited for clarity

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BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Back of the Book" tonight, Carrie Fisher is the daughter of Eddie Fisher (search) and Debbie Reynolds (search). As you may know, she's an accomplished actress and author, forever branded in my brain as Princess Leia, her first film "Star Wars." She doesn't like to hear that, but I was a kid and it turned me into a heterosexual immediately. Ms. Fisher has a book out, a novel called "The Best Awful." And here she is.

I mean there's a million books out there. Very tough sell these days. And take it from me, I know. What would I learn investing money and time in your book?

CARRIE FISHER, ACTRESS/AUTHOR: Well, it's a sequel to a book I wrote called "Postcards From the Edge" which is about...

FISHER: Yes. Well, it's about Suzanne Vale, an actress in Hollywood, who's the daughter of a celebrity, who gets left by a man for a man.

O'REILLY: OK. So you're dumped for a...

FISHER: It's not -- it's very different from me.

O'REILLY: No, it isn't.

FISHER: Oh, I'm sorry. It isn't.

O'REILLY: That's what happened to you.

FISHER: It's what happened to me. Yes.

O'REILLY: But look -- all right. So I'm going to get this story, and I'm going to -- some guy leaves you for another guy, and -- I mean he's crazy and -- I wouldn't have done it.

Thank you.

O'REILLY: But what am I going to learn?

FISHER: Well, you're going to learn what it's like for then -- Suzanne goes off her bipolar medication to find a straight guy.

O'REILLY: Yes.

FISHER: That's how you do it, isn't it?

O'REILLY: I have no idea.

FISHER: I turned you straight when I got in the outfit in the third "Star Wars."

O'REILLY: You bet you did. Right. But I didn't have much -- you didn't have to coax me too much. I was pretty much there.

FISHER: That's why I have to taking the bipolar medicine and throw it away now.

O'REILLY: So this is basically an adventure through this Hollywood labyrinth, all right, and I think that's going to do well. People are interested in that. Now let me -- let me talk about you. You do a show on Oxygen...

FISHER: Yes.

O'REILLY: ... the babe channel, right?

FISHER: The babe channel. That's right.

O'REILLY: Yes, I cruise through that once in a while because I like...

FISHER: ... and my mother's still a babe, and it's not just my mother who's a babe.

O'REILLY: But Susan Sarandon -- she -- I'm not going to win her over, am I?

FISHER: You're not going to win Susan, and the other conservatives golf a lot. So you're going to have to go visit them.

O'REILLY: All right. I think you guys are reading me wrong, but that's OK. We want everybody to buy your book "The Best Awful." And we really appreciate you coming in here, Ms. Fisher. Nice to see you.

FISHER: Thank you. It's been a pleasure.

O'REILLY: I really -- thanks a lot for the Princess Leia deal.

FISHER: Oh, thank you for turning straight. I turned the other guy gay.

O'REILLY: Yes, it wasn't -- it wasn't turning.

FISHER: This is a pleasure.

O'REILLY: I think I was always there, but it was -- encouraged me.

FISHER: Oh, that's good, too.

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